Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag...
by walleeee on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:46AM
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> The problem is that "understanding that capitalism has problems" isn't equivalent to "having an actionable plan to solve capitalism
This is a caricature and the same thing could be said of AI x-risk. There are plenty of ideas on how to avoid unwanted effects of economic systems. I don't think it's at all clear that it's a single problem with a single solution. Getting ideas into practice tends to be the tougher challenge.
More broadly, the point is not to say "wow, alignment problems have existed for a long time already!" This is not profound or clever, it's obvious. But there's a big group of people considering a narrow definition of the problem, and playing what could be considered a useful social role.
This is a caricature and the same thing could be said of AI x-risk. There are plenty of ideas on how to avoid unwanted effects of economic systems. I don't think it's at all clear that it's a single problem with a single solution. Getting ideas into practice tends to be the tougher challenge.
More broadly, the point is not to say "wow, alignment problems have existed for a long time already!" This is not profound or clever, it's obvious. But there's a big group of people considering a narrow definition of the problem, and playing what could be considered a useful social role.